NCSC Contracts in the North of England

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for NCSC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NCSC over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 186 208
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -26
Contract jobs citing NCSC 7 33 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.94% 4.03% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 30
10th Percentile - £601 £527
25th Percentile £563 £613 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £640 £606
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +5.57% -3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile - £688 £688
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

NCSC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 741 819 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.49% 14.00% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 495 662
10th Percentile £320 £288 £185
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.38% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 43 58
10th Percentile - £13.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £26.60 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.84 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -65.76% +100.53% +7.32%
75th Percentile £26.66 £48.49 £34.11
90th Percentile £48.75 £56.43 £52.15
England median hourly rate £21.00 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -50.59% +54.55% +31.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for NCSC in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for NCSC in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -12 5 £575 -10.16% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £575 -
NCSC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
1 2 (28.57%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Security Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
1 5 (71.43%) Security Management
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security Management
2 4 (57.14%) ISMS
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Biomedicine
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Go
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) CISM
2 4 (57.14%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (57.14%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Consul
1 2 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (28.57%) Graphite
1 2 (28.57%) HAProxy
1 2 (28.57%) Istio
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) linkerd
1 2 (28.57%) Packer
1 2 (28.57%) Podman
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
1 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) PagerDuty
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft